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Bion 9 with monkeys Zhakonya and Zabiyaka followed from September 15, 1989, to September 28, 1989. [18] The two took the space endurance record for monkeys at 13 days, 17 hours in space. Monkeys Ivasha and Krosh flew on Bion 10 from December 29, 1992, to January 7, 1993. [19] Krosh produced offspring, after rehabilitation upon returning to Earth.
Ham (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first non-human great ape launched into space.On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.
Enos the Chimpanzee travels to space on NASA's Mercury Atlas 5 1960, YouTube video "Voyage of space chimpanzee Enos ended in Bermuda" by Gail Westerfield; A film clip Chimp into space (no title), 1961/11/30 (1961) is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
Heat-related howler monkeys deaths have now been reported in two more states in southern Mexico, after two other states reported die-offs earlier this month, environmental authorities said. Mexico ...
Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space. He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, to an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) aboard a U.S. V-2 sounding rocket on June 14, 1949. Albert died upon landing after a parachute failure caused his capsule to strike ...
[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities. As of 2025, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.
Iran has always denied that the 2011 launch and the death of its rhesus monkey pilot ever took place. [3] Jonathan McDowell , a Canadian astronomer at Harvard who tracks rocket launches, confirmed that the monkey seen in the promotional material was the animal that had died in 2011, and that there was no reason to believe Fargam's flight was ...